skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It follows in a similar sense that mechanisation makes the need for physical strength an stamina redundant; that transport networks make walking, draft wagons, and sailing ships redundant; and that digital computers make arithmetic and pen-and-paper information management redundant.

Given that high levels of literacy are typically limited to less than a quarter of the population, and low-to-nil levels may be the fate of a third to half (I've addressed this in several previous HN submissions and comments on US adult literacy, searches for posts <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=by%3Adredmorbius%20adult%20literac...> and comments <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>), as well as the tremendous number of people who have to interact in societies in what is not their own mother tongue, there's some merit to this view.

There are of course counterarguments, and I'm highly aware of those as well.
T Gauge (1:450) model trains [video]
This is nothing new. 5-7 years ago there were "plans" announced involving a German conglomerate wanting to create a giant container port in the east of the island.
Do they have good deep water harbors?
I don't think that's right. They show in the section titled "Generating" that the performance of calling the ULID function from SQL is only very slightly slower. It's the INSERT that performs worse.

Generally, inserting sorted values (like sequential integers or in this case, ULIDs) into a B-tree index is much faster than inserting random values. This is because inserted values go into the same, highly packed B-tree nodes, whereas random inserts will need to create a lot of scattered B-tree nodes, resulting in more pages written. Random values are generally faster to query, but slower to insert.

In this case I think the insert speed differences may come down to the sizes of the keys. Postgres's native UUID type is 128 bits, or 16 bytes, whereas the ULID is stored as the "text" type, encoded as base32, resulting in a string that is 26 bytes, plus a 32-bit string length header, so 240 bits in total, or 1.87x longer. In the benchmark, the ULID insert is about 3x that of the UUID. So the overhead may be not just the extra space but the overhead of string comparisons compared to just comparing 128-bit ints.

Edit: The article doesn't actually say which ULID implementation they use. The one implemented in PL/PGSQL mentioned in one of the article's links [1] is very slow. The other [2] is quite fast, but doesn't use base32. However, this [3] native C extension is fast, about 15% faster than the UUID function on my machine.

On my machine, using pg-ulid, inserting 1M rows was on average 1.2x faster for UUID than ULID (mean: 963ms vs 1131ms). This is probably all I/O, and reflects the fact that the ULIDs are longer. Raw output here: https://gist.github.com/atombender/7adccb17a95056313d0e8ff56....

Edit 2: They don't have an index on the column in the article, so my comment about B-tree performance doesn't apply here.

[1] https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/ulid

[2] https://blog.daveallie.com/ulid-primary-keys/

[3] https://github.com/andrielfn/pg-ulid
Makes a ton of sense!

Is this for completions, patches, or new files?
anyone got a guide on setting up and running the business-class stuff (70B models over multiple A100, etc)? i'd be willing to spend the money but only if i could get a good guide on how to set everything up, what hardware goes with what motherboard/ram/cpu, etc.
Useful, yes, though not universally so.
Even without organic material, no two would be alike due to manufacturing tolerances. Good quality control keeps those tolerances low enough that the differences are not significant or noticeable.
Maybe you're polling the people that wanted to join before 2022? Otherwise, how would the jump in support in 2022 be explained?
Show HN: I built a tool to visualize MRR
It's easier to run your own Mastodon server than your own mail server (for the exact reason you cite).
"In later years, however, former Soviet officials cited SDI as a factor in the eventual collapse of their country, for it showed that the Soviet Union was politically unprepared for and economically incapable of competing in a new arms race with the United States, especially one led by someone as unrelenting as Reagan."

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ronald-Reagan/Relations...
The problem with this approach is that you're talking about the past. Yes, Poland and others did profit from joining the EU, initially, but once EU realized that they changed the rules of the game. EU is not about economic prosperity anymore, it is all about "climate change", immigration and similar bullshit. Lisbon Treaty in particular redefined how EU works. The best thing to do right now is to leave the EU before it collapses.
Suppose that Eric is in the middle.

Eric could allow those initial three messages to pass unmolested. In this case Alice and Bob now have an authenticated connection and Eric is unable to read or modify their messages. So I suppose you don't mean that.

What if Eric just substitutes his own message for Alice's in step 1? He provides his own parameters. Since these were not Alice's parameters, Alice will not provide an acceptable Digest for the conversation, the parameters Eric sent to Bob are different and do not match the transcript, the connection is terminated.

What if Eric substitutes Bob's only message in step 2? He provides his own parameters, and he can respond with a transcript digest for this alternate conversation. Now in fact the TLS 1.3 connection exists as normal, but it is between Alice and Eric. We're actually fine! We have a properly authenticated connection, with unidentified participants (we know they're Alice and Eric but Alice and Eric don't know that). Bob's connection fails, or he is unaware that Alice tried to connect.

Finally if Eric waits until Alice's second message in step 3, no message Eric knows how to construct is satisfactory. Only Alice's original message will work, other messages cause the connection to fail because Bob will not accept them.
I may be speaking out of turn here as somebody born in this century, but after reading the book The Man I Knew I have held a high regard for George H. W. Bush. He, like Carter, was a great human who really cared about others.

Again, for all I know, he could have presented himself differently during his term in office, but after his term was up, his life seems genuine to me.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55648822-the-man-i-knew
Why is that relevant in this context?
I do not see how. A well made guitar from a factory would give the same joy as a hand made one as far as I am concerned. Perhaps even more upon realizing imperfections were avoided.
There’s a fantastic book about this - The Yompers [1]

Follows the troops, covers the night battles, the blisters, the soggy terrain…a great read.

[1] https://amzn.eu/d/gArUDh0
Anyone who's been to Iceland can see that it is not, in fact, a typical Northern European society. It really feels like a strange mix of US and EU. Besides, the north-east US states can easily be described as social democracies as well.

As EU-ropean, I'd much rather see Iceland a member, but I can see them becoming a US state or territory and it wouldn't really be that far-fetched to be honest.
Impressive feat by Waymo, though it could have been 100-200ms faster had it noticed not only the change in trajectory, but also the jerky motion that destabilized the scooter.

For a truly superhuman performance, it might even register the brick and anticipate the scooter's accident.
HN users love to complain about HOAs being overly restrictive but they can play a valuable role in keeping AirBnB trash out of residential communities. I'm glad that my HOA has banned short-term rentals from the start.
Not familiar with bog-standards.
The form-factor and footprint of most desktop computers is simple inertia of the current tooling and mindset.
The Treaty of Rome is 1957, so those are strange dates to select…
I very much agree with your position. There are legitimate questions to be asked about this feature being opt-in, although we may find that you implicitly opt-in if you enable Apple Intelligence or similar.

But the argument that this specific feature represents some new beachhead in some great war against privacy strikes me as little more that clickbate hyperbole. If Apple really wanted to track people’s locations, it would be trivial for them to do so, without all this cloak and dagger nonsense people seem to come up with. Equally, is a state entity wanted to track your location (or even track people’s locations at scale), there’s a myriad of trivially easy ways for them to do so, without resorting to forcing Apple to spy on their customers via complex computer vision landmark lookup system.
> if you're writing a small, stateful application with no need to expose functionality externally, it can be a good fit.

Small in what way? For me a "large" application is one with many business rules, not one with many rows in the database. So I would have said DDD was more suitable for the "large" application, not the small one.

Yeah, it's more likely that people will write software to handle large amounts of data, but that data has to come from somewhere. Somewhere there must still be software that makes small transactional changes according to business rules. But perhaps this is what you meant by the "small stateless application".

The main thing for me is that it should be possible to write business rules in some language that isn't SQL, because SQL only supports CRUD. This idea is espoused by SICP, Clean Architecture, DDD etc. Using something like DDD is beneficial only because other developers already know the concepts like repository etc. But it could be anything that works.
We don't need a baroque system to fix this, though. Simply taxing rents would do the job.
The Story of Stent
I feel like people have a need to “fill the void” with productivity. It’s like they can’t be alone with their thoughts anymore.

I feel like this is becoming a more serious problem than people realize.

I also feel like people can’t do tasks quietly, without having a feed of music or podcasts. I see it with my wife and my kids. None of them are able to carry out activities without some audio being steamed to their brain. Most people can’t even work without headphones on, even in a quiet environment.

Most people will say “what’s wrong with that?”, but I feel this is a symptom of some underlying anxiety, we just don’t realize it.
Bunny people were part of the MMX and PII marketing.
if you look at the NGO that receive government grants they have been doing quite a bit of renovation. Simply changing their brand from "homeless industrial complex" to "unhoused industrial complex" they can bank on slow bureaucracy and continue to pay themselves tech salary to perpetuate the exact same situation that ultimately provides no uplift.

There's a correlation between "sanctuary ciies" and NGOs that ultimately hire based on political ideology rather than pragmatic policies.

If you do not remove the drugs from the equation the overall situation will not improve. There's a big contrast between homeless population in Japan vs West Coast America and the obvious reason is access to drugs.
Look at U.S. factories now vs the 1980s - way fewer workers but making more stuff. Yeah, companies moved jobs overseas, but they also went big on automation to boost efficiency. That's a huge reason factory jobs disappeared.

As for COVID origins, let's not perpetuate unproven theories.
Thanks, that's interesting, I didn't think numbers have changed so much.

What do Germans think about the fact that either Ukraine, which received tens of billions of euros in money and weapons from Germany, or the US, who is Germany's ally, blew up the Nord Stream?
Blame Microsoft.

Across multiple laptops the Win 11 iso doesn't have Wifi drivers. And since we're in hell, you can't finish the setup process and actually use your computer without an Internet connection. Since then you'd be able to run an installer for the WiFi drivers.

Luckily you can use an Android phone to create an Internet bridge which will allow you to proceed.

However, The OEMs will automatically install CrapWare( we should start calling it this) even on vanilla Windows installs.

Compared to my last few CachyOS installs where everything just works out of the box. I don't need to provide my email address to use my computer.

Honestly as long as I can disable secureboot and install Linux it's ok. The moment I can't do this I'll be using legacy hardware ( or import a laptop from the EU where this is banned).

Edit: Hopefully the EU will make secure boot an option we can disable...

To be fair normal people don't care. My friend needed a new laptop, and since she's not too worried about the latest specs I just picked up what I could find at target for 300$. She is never going to reinstall. When Windows messes itself up in a year or two she'll probably just buy another 300$ laptop.
enter the BIOS/EFI, toggle the AHCI/RAID/RST mode flag

He said (with screenshots) that flag doesn't exist. Maybe he didn't look hard enough for the flag and didn't look hard enough for the driver though. I got a "I don't want to fix my laptop; I want to complain" vibe from the blog post.
If you read the reports, those wishes were relayed by his family. The last time he was filmed a few months ago he didn't appear conscious.
They also have the MI300A-based servers. I’d love to misuse one as a workstation.
That’s kinda a thing for aviation: see “intermediate stop operations”.

Limiting range also lets you use smaller craft with things like smaller fuel tanks.

Iceland does quite a business on this sitting between euro and American destinations. Greenland might get into this too.

Also probably gets some crews at home each night flying the leg back instead of needing to stay on the mainland for a day/night before doing a later return leg.
You're putting the cart before the horse. Countries only join the EU after they establish friendly relations with the rest of the EU members and become democratic.
Maybe they wanted to decrypt NATO radio messages?
Not op but I'm on Bluesky and have seen several of these decent sized accounts, including people at large newsrooms say they get far more engagement at BlueSky than Twitter. Bigger fish, smaller pond, I suspect, but also more engaged users perhaps.
General assumption maybe I shouldn’t be making, is that the trailers are already owned by the organization responsible for this and would already only be used for this purpose.

Perhaps the fact that you could build these theoretically faster than doing on a trailer makes it a moot point, then again if trailers are your bottleneck maybe it’s possible to schedule building around that to keep delivery smooth
A bunch of things come to mind: minimum vacation and sicks days, minimum wage and unemployment benefits that are adjusted to inflation, health care coverage as part of unemployment benefits, etc
There are plenty of factory made shoes that have fancy contoured uppers that have shapes that can’t really be achieved by hand.
Could they have thought it was NOBUS? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS
Some of the features (RAG retrieval) now use embeddings that are calculated in Open WebUI rather than in Ollama or another backend. It does seem like it'd be nice for them to refactor to make things like that optional for those who want a simpler interface, but then again, there are plenty of other lighter-weight options.
Previous gen Dell laptops at my workplace had issues with expanding batteries. Newer ones don’t, but are made from really cheap plastic, and have bad battery life.

I would definitely avoid their laptops and get Thinkpads instead.
Wuen you wash your hands, do you wash your phone too?
Also a very lazy approach.
What external identity information that is immutable would you like them to use? Your state or government issued ID? Because those change over time as well. Your physical address, that changes too. 2FA app on your phone sometimes those get lost or broken in an unrecoverable way as well. Perhaps submitting a DNA sample would be sufficient identity information that doesn't change over time.

As far as I can tell there is no perfect identity information that is immutable across time. For things like this you must keep the information up to date. It is unfortunate that there is not a centralized management or brokerage for this kind of thing but having a centralized identity management system comes with another set of problems whereas you have one system to breach instead of dozens of systems.

Steam does support email addresses as a second factor login and their app. It is always wise to periodically check that your identity information on every platform is up to date especially if you've moved or changed phones or things of that nature.
Apparently the two survivors were crew sitting in the back, so they also had the rear facing seats crew use.
That’s not what price discrimination is
I understood it to be two different categories.

"Unhoused" being those literally without any shelter. "Homeless" can refer to anyone without a fixed address, but say couchsurfing.

Most "homeless" don't actually sleep outside.
Every time I've read about an opportunity for universal healthcare to be passed, something apparently insurmountable always crops up. I was too young during the Obama debates to read about this, but I read more about it a decade after. Carter expressing frankly what reads like rage to me makes it feel like the closest chance we had, but I haven't read into the specifics.

That aside, when I read about downsides of universal healthcare in America, I still think the tradeoff is worth it. Even if it means wait lines and decades slower drug discovery, if it meant measurably less rage at the system, I would support it. I know this isn't the thread topic, but the public polled reactions to literal assassination being not particularly negative points to how unpopular the current system is, despite other measures showing it as popular.

Anyway, screw the (political) Kennedy family. Seriously.
My dad worked for then-Governor Carter's administration.

The state of Georgia at that time was mostly rural. A small town that needs to expand their water supply would often lack the specialized staff required. Under Carter, the state created regional offices to assist with planning, grant writing, etc.

It was DevOps for local government.

Carter was quite willing to innovate.
Nothing unproven about covid coming out of wuhan lab

House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak
https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-conclude...

Two-thirds of Americans believe that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab in China https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/45389-americans-b...

also, Harvard Business Review agreed that "some U.S. regions lost manufacturing jobs as a result of trade with China in the early 2000s" https://hbr.org/2022/11/has-trade-with-china-really-cost-the...
LM Studio?
How did the Salvation Army solve the problem?
Business laptops are designed to last one refresh cycle while not being loved or well cared for. They don’t look great, but they keep working.
I think the "work" in particular was a rough choice because it's not immediately clear whether they're using it as a verb or noun. And "set off" is bad for similar reasons.

Something like "deadliest tsunami triggered preparations for the next one" or "deadliest tsunami inspired readiness for the next one" might be better.

Or even "lessons from the 2004 tsunami help us prepare for the next one".
And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...
DC was built on lands ceded from the states of Maryland and Virginia for the explicit purpose of creating a national capital that was neutral ground between the various states. The residents of the District are free to vote for retrocession back to Maryland if they want representation.
Ode on a Neural Network

Thou still unraveled shape of silicon,
Thou child of data and electric thought,
Digital historian, who canst thus express
A mathematical tale more sweetly than our prose:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts thy tensored depths
Of vectors or of nodes, or of both,
In virtual space or clouded matrices?
What parameters dance in what hidden layers?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to compute?
What matrices of backpropagation?

How cold are those cold gradients, how sparse
The lonely nodes that never can decode
Their ancient patterns; and how blank the space
Where each new epoch brings a fresh cascade
Of weights adjusting to some distant truth
That floats beyond our human comprehension's reach!

O atrous convolution! fair display
Of mathematical beauty born anew
With every forward pass - yet still we gaze
In wonder at thy deep complexity.

Heard algorithms are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft transformers, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of backprop:
Fair function, beneath the nodes, thou canst not leave
Thy gradients, nor ever can those trees

Be pruned; bold Optimizer, never, never canst
Thou kiss thy target, though thou draw'st so near!
Yet do not grieve; she cannot fade, thy love
Frozen in checkpoints time cannot destroy.

When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to human-kind, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
Of deep learning's vast and boundless dream.
>It is if they are "good enough".

Thanks, that is the right way to put it.

I was picking on the person who was saying that there are not enough good candidates, where I have worked in most cases they were good enough, so it baffles me when people frequently say that there are not enough good candidates. I'm just wondering if my sample data is different from others . Again I think quantification of what is good enough will go a long way example: Must be a able to solve the fizz/biz example.
The broad set of perspectives is "H-1B visas are great because it lets us exploit workers" vs "H-1B visas are terrible because I'm a racist." Read trending tweets and you'll see no different.

Some diversity they got there.
how about heat dissipation which i assume a mbp is at a disadvantage compared to a pc?
Nobody expressing the general sentiment of “hand made is intrinsically better than factory made” has been able to produce evidence of intrinsic superiority. The burden of proof is on those making such claims and evidence largely favors factories as producing superior products. There can be exceptions, but that is due to bad decisions rather than some intrinsic issue with the idea of a factory production line.
Companies sell these off after just a few years as warranty goes out. You can pick up 2019/2020 machines on ebay. Fast enough for most things.
We’ve taken to recommending Rufus in our setup guides rather than the Windows installation media tool due to the lack of recent Wi-Fi drivers in vanilla Windows.
If you know the call signs you would get exactly that, wouldn't you? (I watched the talk only half attentively)
Why on earth are you giving Big Tech a pass here? Are you effing kidding?
Are you saying that the Windows installer doesn't know how to use storage interfaces that the final installed Windows system would know how to use, and furthermore that those include storage interfaces that might be used for the boot drive? So in order to install, you have to get an RST driver and somehow load it into the installer, but after that the system will work?

After reading the Dell documentation... yeah, that's exactly the situation. A laptop only has one drive BTW.
I consider an endorsement more of the rationale for why, personally.
Are you perhaps thinking of the Faroe Islands and their killing of pilot whales? (Grindadráp, killing hundreds of whales)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands